Status Dashboard

Status Dashboard is status page for your configured services or applications.

Demo @ Heroku : http://statusdashboard-node.herokuapp.com

Screenshots

Installation

• npm install statusdashboard or
• npm install git+https://github.com/iobazoud/statusdashboard#master

Optionally, you can install as a global package

Roadmap

• Improve UI: scrollbars, filters, check type column, ...
• Add network services like SMTP, POP3, ...
• Improve REST API to get / push data ...

How To Use

As an application

Add your entry in settings.js.

settings['xxx'] = {
...
};

• export APP_ENV=demo
• ./bin/statusdashboard

You can override settings with an external settings for private information like passwords, ..

• vi ~/.statusdashboard/settings.js

exports.create = function() {
  var appSettings = {
    port: 8081,
    services: [{
      name: 'FTP Local',
      password: 'xxx'
    }]
  };
  return appSettings;
};
}

• export APP_SETTINGS=~/.statusdashboard/settings.js

As a node module

var dashboard = require('statusdashboard').dashboard(settings);

Code

dashboard.api.addService(serviceObject)

Add a new service to be checked

dashboard.api.removeService(ServiceName)

Remove a service to be checked

dashboard.api.startChecking

Start the scheduled checks. Automatically is started by default when instanciating dashboard

dashboard.api.stopChecking

Stop the scheduled checks

dashboard.api.getStatus()

Return the current status of checked services

All other calls available in api.js are to be used at your own risk. You have been warned

Service

Daemon init script for node.js: https://gist.github.com/1123553

Plugins

Some plugins are available out-of-the-box:

• Console
• Graphite, send service state in Graphite
• Heartbeat
• History, save service state in Redis (Thanks to sreeix initial pull request) and graph it!
• IRC bot
• Mail
• Twitter
• Webhook
• XMPP

External Plugins

You can develop independent plugins and load them into Status Dashboard by using the external plugin feature. A plugin example is available at http://github.com/chamerling/sd-plugin-sample.

Plugins can be installed using npm CLI (from the status-dashboard directory):

npm install sd-plugin-sample

Or by adding them as dependency in the status-dashboard package.json descriptor.

In order to activate plugins, you have to add them to the plugins.json file (["sd-plugin-sample"], ["my_plugin"]) and turn on the external plugins feature in settings.js:

plugins : {
  external: {
    enable : true,
    file : __dirname + '/plugins.json'
  },
  ...
}

REST API

• List services

$ curl http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/services
{"last":"Fri, 17 Jun 2011 22:33:03 GMT","services":[{"name":"couchdb","label":"Couchdb server @ local","status":"up","statusCode":200,"message":""},{"name":"bazoud.free.fr","label":"Olivier Bazoud blog","status":"up","statusCode":200,"message":""},{"name":"bazoud.free.fr","label":"Olivier Bazoud blog test.php","status":"up","statusCode":200,"message":""},{"name":"redis","label":"Redis server @ local","status":"up","statusCode":0,"message":""},{"name":"FTP Local","label":"Ftp @ local","status":"down","statusCode":0,"message":"ECONNREFUSED, Connection refused"},{"name":"PID file","label":"Pid @ local","status":"unknown","statusCode":9,"message":"EBADF, Bad file descriptor '/tmp/terminal.pid'"}],"lastupdate":"Fri, 17 Jun 2011 22:33:08 GMT","summarize":{"lastupdate":"Fri, 17 Jun 2011 22:33:08 GMT","up":3,"critical":0,"down":1,"unknown":2}}

• Retrieve a specific service

$ curl http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/services/couchdb
{"name":"couchdb","label":"Couchdb server @ local","status":"up","statusCode":200,"message":""}

• Retrieve a summary

$ curl http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/summarize
{"up":4,"critical":0,"down":1,"unknown":1}

• Version of application

$ curl -iX GET http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/version
{"commit":"641b97cbcfdc53b1b2b825d588afe08e412471d4","author":"obazoud","committer":"obazoud","date":"Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:15:27 GMT"}

• And plugin can contribute to statusdashboard REST API

$ curl http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/history/service/couchdb
["{\"time\":1310024374699,\"status\":\"up\",\"message\":\"\",\"code\":200}","{\"time\":1310024379591,\"status\":\"up\",\"message\":\"\",\"code\":200}", ...]

Early adopters

• Exoplatform

• Shufflr

• Ekino

• IRC Plugin screenshot @ exoplatform

Contribute

Here's the most direct way to get your work merged into the project.

1. Fork the project
2. Clone down your fork
3. Create a feature branch
4. Hack away and add tests, not necessarily in that order
5. Make sure everything still passes by running tests
6. If necessary, rebase your commits into logical chunks without errors
7. Push the branch up to your fork
8. Send a pull request for your branch

In the news

• IT Wars: StatusDashboard monitoring avec Node.js
• William Durand blog: Services Status Dashboard
• C.Hamerling blog: Node.js client for Status Dashboard
• C.Hamerling blog: Monitoring Tool in the Cloud in (less than) 2 minutes...

Licence

Statusdashboard is provided under Apache Software Licence 2.0.